• User_4272894@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I didn’t suggest Amazon run the process. I just meant “logistics infrastructure exists on a scale unimaginable in 1996”. 600 million COVID doses given out in the US might have been a better comparison. Or 7.2 billion packages by USPS in 2022. There are 708k cops in the US. That’s 2 guns recovered per cop per month to have it done in 90 days.

    There is literally no argument in the world where “the logistics make it impossible” is a reasonable claim.

    Likewise, “we’ll never get 290 votes” is a lazy and cowardly claim. Yes, it’ll be hard. Yes, it’ll be a fight. Yes, we’ll have some minds that will be impossible to change. But your apparent argument in defense of gun rights seems to be “aww, jeez, it seems pretty tricky” which is truly mind boggling to me.

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      8 months ago

      It’s not that it will be hard, it’s that this is the same body that took 22 days to build a simple majority to decide who their own leader is. 290 is out of reach.

      That same speaker, BTW, has already said he won’t allow gun issues to come to the floor.

      The Republicans will not vote for it, which is the majority. Some Democrats won’t vote for it either. It’s a dead issue.